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No More 'Keeping Up With The Kardashians,' E! Show To End After 14-Year Run
Tuesday, September 8, 2020 - 11:40pm | 296Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA)-owned E! Is ending the two decades long-running series “Keeping Up with the Kardashians,” CNN reported Tuesday. What Happened: The last season of the series will air early next year, bringing to an end the show that focuses on the...
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Volkswagen All-Electric ID.4 SUV Goes Into Production
Friday, August 21, 2020 - 1:15am | 409Volkswagen AG (OTC: VWAGY) announced Thursday it was stepping up its “electric offensive” and producing its first all-electric SUV under its ID brand in Germany. What Happened The compact SUV’s production has commenced at the automaker’s Zwickau plant, which has been...
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Apple Engineer Claims Company Made Him Build 'Top Secret' iPod For Federal Govt
Thursday, August 20, 2020 - 4:53am | 459A former Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) software engineer, David Shayer, claims he took on a hush-hush assignment while he was at the company that involved building a “top secret” iPod for the United States Department of Energy, CNN reported Wednesday. The Top Secret iPod: Shayer...
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Trump Signs Executive Orders To Ban TikTok, WeChat In 45 Days, Unless Parent Firms Agree To Sell Apps
Thursday, August 6, 2020 - 10:28pm | 415President Donald Trump signed two executive orders Thursday evening that would effectively ban TikTok and WeChat operations in the United States, if China-based parent companies ByteDance and Tencent Holdings Ltd. (OTC: TCEHY) fail to make sales within 45 days from now. What Happened...
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Robinhood Shelves Global Expansion Plans Indefinitely
Wednesday, July 22, 2020 - 4:57am | 338Robinhood is putting on hold its foray into international markets as well as the launch of its United Kingdom services, CNN reported Tuesday. What Happened The Menlo Park, California-based mobile trading app had announced its U.K. expansion in November 2019, with a scheduled launch due in...
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Sony Acquires Minority Stake In Fortnite Maker Epic Games With $250M Investment
Friday, July 10, 2020 - 1:58am | 296Sony Corporation (NYSE: SNE) has made a strategic investment of $250 million in Epic Games, the two companies announced Thursday. What Happened The Japanese conglomerate will own a 1.4% stake in the company best known as the maker of the cooperative shooter-survival game Fortnite, according to a...
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Iran Wants To Arrest Donald Trump Over General Qasem Soleimani Death In Baghdad
Tuesday, June 30, 2020 - 7:51am | 343Iran has issued arrest warrants against 36 individuals, including the president of the United States Donald Trump, over the killing of General Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps. What Happened Ali Alqasi Mehr, Attorney General of Tehran, said that Trump would be...
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Trump Deletes 'White Power' Tweet After Public Outrage
Monday, June 29, 2020 - 6:59am | 353President Donald Trump shared a video on Sunday, showing supporters chanting "white power" on Twitter Inc.'s (NYSE: TWTR) social media platform. What Happened "Thank you to the great people of The Villages. The Radical Left Do Nothing Democrats will Fall in the Fall....
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Walmart Stops Display Of Mississippi Flag In Stores Over Confederate Flag Emblem Issue
Wednesday, June 24, 2020 - 8:31am | 327Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT) will refrain from displaying the flag of Mississippi in local stores over a confederate emblem in the flag, Reuters reported Tuesday. What Happened "While the issue continues to be discussed, we've made the decision to remove the Mississippi state flag from display...
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Media Network And Data Platform Benzinga Announces Global Fintech Awards Featuring Leading Disruptive Innovations In Finance
Friday, June 19, 2020 - 3:20pm | 430Detroit, MI, June 19, 2020 -- Benzinga, a leading news and data platform, announced it will be holding its annual Benzinga Global Fintech Awards, a day of dealmaking, networking, and recognition in the financial technology space, on November 10, 2020, at New York, NY. The event will recognize...
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Tim Cook, Satya Nadella, Others Praise Supreme Court's Landmark Decision Protecting LGBTQ Employees
Tuesday, June 16, 2020 - 9:06am | 487America's business leaders are praising the majority 6-3 Supreme Court ruling that LGBTQ employees are entitled to federal protections against job discrimination in states where such protections were not available. What Happened The Supreme Court has extended employment ...
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Twitter Shuts Down More Than 170,000 Accounts Linked To Chinese Government
Friday, June 12, 2020 - 7:11am | 349Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) announced Thursday it had shut down over 170,000 accounts for pushing deceptive narratives about political dynamics in Hong Kong favorable to the Communist Party of China (CCP). What Happened In an attempt to prevent the efforts of governments seeking to push their...
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Starbucks To Close 400 US Stores As It Restructures Business, Expects $2.2B Decline In Q3
Thursday, June 11, 2020 - 1:58am | 412Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) on Wednesday shared its forecast for the third quarter of its financial year in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Q3 Forecast The coffee chain giant said it expects Q3 total revenue to drop between $3-$3.2 billion due to the impact of the...
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Tesla CEO Musk Says Other Three Officers Should Be Charged In Floyd's Murder Case
Tuesday, June 2, 2020 - 6:12am | 586Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk on Monday, said it wasn't right for three other officers involved in the case of George Floyd's death to go scot-free. What Happened "Definitely not right that the other officers were charged with nothing," Musk said in...
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Moncef Slaoui To Divest Moderna Stake As He Joins White House Vaccine Accelerator
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 - 9:00am | 561President Donald Trump's administration announced Monday that former Moderna Inc. (NASDAQ: MRNA) board member Moncef Slaoui is divesting his stock options in the biotechnology company, CNN reported. Slaoui Selected For 'Operation Warp Speed' Slaoui held 155,438 shares in Moderna...